Show your friends you support Windows Phone with the free app Tile Me!

If there is one thing Windows Phone supporters are good at, it’s self-promotion. We have a lot of evangelists in the crowd who want to get the word out about their OS of choice. We don’t blame you either, but we’re only as good as the tools we have to work with, which is why Tile Me! is worthy of your attention.

Over in the sub-Reddit dedicated to Windows Phone, a social media consultant named David Kimball had an idea: why not create profile pictures that looked like the Windows Phone Me Tile? The idea was to allow you to change your profile pic on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc., with the Windows Phone styled design, resulting in more awareness.

While a solid idea, it did lack one thing: practicality. That’s because David was creating the images one-by-one based on user request (see his website). While certainly helpful, in the long run that would not be feasible, especially if we sent a hundred thousand of our daily readers there.

Enter developer InfiniteLoop who decided to automate the process. What better way to do that than with a free (ad supported) Windows Phone app? Users can download Tile Me! for free, insert an image, pick their tile color and save it to their library for profile replacement. A paid version is evidently on the way, should you want to support the dev, but for now, you can use the ad-supported and free version.

In the future, we'd like to see support for the higher quality PNG format in addition to JPEG, but for now we'll take what we can get.

Overall, it’s a nifty little app powered by a great idea.

Pick up Tile Me! here in the Store. All Windows Phones. Thanks, Justin M., for the tip!

Nope. It's "Me" on Windows Phone, not your name. It has to be the same.
I just think it should offer a option to translate the "me" word. Example: here in Brazil, the "me" tile is called "Eu". So, I would like to use the "Eu" tile.

Why are you still hanging around here trolling on apps that don't even run on your new phone? I would think that since you've supposedly dropped your WP for IPhone 5, you should be more happy hanging over at iMore instead looking at apps that do run on your phone.

But if you pin a friend, it shows their name on the top half, and pushes their picture down to the bottom half. I like the 1/3 Tile, 2/3 picture this app makes, but it would be better with my name, not "Me". Plus, if multiple people do it, you could end up with a people feed full of "Me" pics.

Okay, but when I unticked Hotmail and only posted the update to Facebook, my Me tile on my phone still changed. I then had to work around this bug by again updating my profile picture but only for Hotmail so my Me tile would return to normal. Are you having that issue as well, or am I doing something wrong?

You can always get the word out on XDA as well. also in WPC forums under new apps..many folks read that section another good way of getting the word out about your app. do that place a link I'll check it out.

Great idea. I had a "Me" tile for my facebook profile pic a while back and then used a photoshop template to surround it with a cover photo that looked like a Windows 8 start screen. I was thinking of the phone at first, but Windows 8 worked better in the horizontal layout.

Hello folks. I am the developer of this app and I just saw that the app was featured on WPCentral. To answer some of the requests, I am already done with the ability to change the text on the tile and am submitting the update very soon.

For the next updates, I plan to add support for more languages, higher resolution tiles (currently saves 500x500) and creating GIF animations.

I really do like the WP8 system, but the slow OS updates, missing epic apps like a proper facebook client, Google+, Snapchat and many more have convinced me to go back to iOS when they release the newest iPhone.
Too bad MS and Nokia. You had the chance to make som change in the smartphone world and you spoiled it big time.

Tap your Me tile (the start screen WP one) tap on your profile picture, tap the picture again to change it and select your original picture (not the one you generated using Tile Me!), now under Post to: untick Facebook and all the other accounts you dont want changed, but leave your main account Microsoft/Outlook or Hotmail Ticked). Post the new image. This will update your email profile picture, fix the double Me Me issue and leave your Facebook, Twitter etc. profile pictures as Me tiles.